;)

I’m told that most people - you know, normal people - do not consider IA a world view. For them, it blows in like the haar, makes everything all hazy and slippery underfoot for a while, and then, blessedly, leaves them (perhaps with head cold). Apparently it doesn’t follow everyone home from the office. Or to hospital with afflicted loved ones.

As someone with a similar IA-related condition, I cast my vote for “Accident or Emergency”. Unless the NHS adopts your three-door triage system, it seems enough to ascertain that at least one of the conditions is true. In fact, I don’t see why accidents enter into the matter. The U.S. convention Emergency Room, makes me think of a little room where you procure an emergency, but I see now that it has some advantages.

Even with the ingenious portal-based triage, every emergency could correctly choose two of the three doors. Only one door would be wrong. This is why I am no fan of “and/or”. I would probably stand outside bleeding while trying to figure out the one correct place to get stitched up. Wikipedia says I may not be alone:

The phrase [and/or] has come under considerable criticism in the legal profession in both American and British courts. …The Wisconsin Supreme Court referred to it as “that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity.”

That’s especially funny if you imagine it in a Wisconsin accent. (Fargo is close enough. See also.)

I wish all concerned a speedy recovery.

Cheers!

From my experience in A&E, it’d be quite busy.